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Malayalam
Malayalam

German
German



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Countries

Countries

India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

37
0 46
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National Language

Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Asia
Europe

Minority Language

Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
  • Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

419
9 60
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Scripts

Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

26
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ഹലോ (halēā)
hallo

Thank You

നന്ദി (nandi)
Danke

How Are You?

സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
gute Nacht

Good Evening

ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
guten Tag

Good Morning

രാവിലെ (rāvile)
guten Morgen

Please

ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
bitte

Sorry

ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Verzeihung

Bye

വിട (viṭa)
Tschüs

I Love You

ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Judeo-Malayalam
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Israel, kerala
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Mappila
Swabian German

Where They Speak

India
Germany

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Pandy Malayalam
Texas German

Where They Speak

France, kerala
Texas

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

328
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

38.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.57 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

38.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

38.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

malayalam
allemand

German Name

Malayalam
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Malayali
Germans

History

Origin

9th Century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early form
No early forms

Standard Forms

Malayalam
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

299
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Malayalam
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ml
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mal
deu

ISO 639 2/B

mal
ger

ISO 639 3

mal
deu

ISO 639 6

mal
deus

Glottocode

mala1464
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Malayalam and German Alphabets

Malayalam and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malayalam and German. In Malayalam Alphabets there are 53 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Malayalam and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malayalam and German languages. The Malayalam phonology consist Malayalam vowels and Malayalam consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Malayalam greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malayalam and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Malayalam and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Malayalam and German dialects. Various dialects of Malayalam and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malayalam are spoken in different Malayalam Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malayalam vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam, Mappila. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malayalam and German Speaking population

Malayalam and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malayalam and German languages can be compared. The total count of Malayalam and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Malayalam and German on Malayalam vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malayalam and German Language Codes

Malayalam and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malayalam and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.